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Title
Offcentered view of Library entrance, Western State Teachers College
Time Period
1922 - 1929
Description
Front entrance of the Library Building (North Hall). View offcenter from above featuring the portico.
Title
School of Business in North Hall, entrance portico, at Western Michigan University
Date
approximately 1964
Time Period
1960 - 1969
Description
Front entrance of the Western Michigan University School of Business in North Hall. View focuses on building entrance portico with pediment supported by classical columns topped with corinthian capitals. Four male students are entering the building. Built in 1924, North Hall was altered several times, undergoing renovation in 1958. It was demolished in 2014, and only the front entrance remains on Prospect Hill.
Title
Fa�ade of Library Building, Western Michigan University
Time Period
[1929 - 1939, 1939 - 1949]
Description
Fa�ade of the Library Building (North Hall) on East Campus of Western Michigan University. View includes landscaping and sidewalks.
Title
Front entrance of the Library Building, Western State Teachers College
Time Period
[1930 - 1939, 1940 - 1949]
Description
Front entrance of the Library Building. View features the portico and semi-circular window above the door. Plaque above the door reads: Library Building. View from starts looking upwards.
Title
Fireplace and painting in Library reading room, Western State Teachers College
Date
approximately 1925
Time Period
[1920 - 1929, 1930 - 1939]
Description
Two-story Reading Room in Library Building (North Hall) at Western State Teachers College. View, looking north, features the painting of Yosemite Valley by Thomas Hill above the ornamental mantle. In front of the marble fireplace are two display cases of rare books from the AM Todd Collection. The Reading Room was designed by Henry H. Turner and Victor E. Thebaud Architects in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Title
Service desk in Library, Western State Teachers College
Time Period
[1950 - 1960, 1960 - 1969]
Description
Photograph of a service desk at the Library on the Western State Teachers College campus. Men and woman stand at tall work tables. In the background against the wall is a card catalog.
Title
Library Reading Room, Western State Teachers College
Date
approximately 1925
Time Period
[1920 - 1929, 1930-1939]
Description
Two-story Reading Room in Library Building (North Hall) at Western State Teachers College. View looking northeast features features seating for 300 students, marble fireplace, paintings donated by the local art collector A.M. Todd including the notable “Yosemite Valley” by Thomas Hill, and recessed wall shelving. The Reading Room was designed by Henry H. Turner and Victor E. Thebaud Architects in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The image appeared in the book Kalamazoo Lost and Found by Kalamazoo Historian Lynn Houghton.
Title
Fa�ade of the School of Business, partially shaded, Western Michigan University
Date
1964-11
Time Period
1960 - 1969
Description
Front entrance of the School of Business in North Hall, partially in shadows.
Title
Fa�ade of the School of Business, Western Michigan University
Date
1964-11
Time Period
1960 - 1969
Description
Front entrance of the School of Business in North Hall. View from the far right and features the entrance portico.
Title
Reading Room of the Library Building, Western State Teachers College
Time Period
[1920 - 1929, 1930 - 1939]
Title
Three students outside School of Business entrance, Western Michigan University
Time Period
[1960 - 1969, 1970 - 1979]
Description
Photograph of entrance to School of Business in North Hall, Western Michigan University. View looks west past the facade and includes the roof of the Men�s Gym.
Title
North Hall, exterior, Western Michigan University
Time Period
[1950 - 1959, 1960 - 1969]
Description
Photograph of School of Business in North Hall. View looking northeast and featuring a 3/4 view of fa�ade & west fa�ade.
Title
Fa�ade of Library Building, exterior, Western Michigan University
Time Period
1930 - 1939
Description
Photograph of the front of the Library Building (North Hall), without landscaping, shortly after it was built. Completed in 1924, the Library Building was designed by Henry Turner and Victor Thebaud, architects in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Title
Students in front of the marble fireplace, Reading Room, Library Building, Michigan College of Education
Date
approximately 1940-12?
Time Period
[1930 - 1939, 1940 - 1949]
Title
Library Building, lower lobby, Western State Teachers College
Time Period
[1920 - 1929, 1930 - 1939]
Description
Lower Lobby in the Library Building (North Hall) at Western State Teachers College. View facing west and features a New Books cart display, a display board, and spiral staircase. The Reading Room was designed by Henry H. Turner and Victor E. Thebaud Architects in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Title
Library interior, stacks, Western State Teachers College
Time Period
[1920 - 1929, 1930 - 1939]
Description
General stacks in the Library Building (North Hall) at Western State Teachers College.
Title
Front of the Library Building, Western State Teachers College
Date
approximately 1939
Time Period
1921 - 1929
Description
Entrance of North Hall from the sidewalks. View includes portico and sidewalks.
Title
Men and woman working at a table, Manual Arts Building, Western Michigan University
Time Period
[1960 - 1969, 1970 - 1979]
Description
Three men and one woman working at a table in a classroom or lab in the Manual Arts Building possibly as part of a workshop.
Title
Group portrait of the Political Science Department faculty at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Group photograph of the Political Science Department faculty from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Milton Greenberg, Donald Ackerman, Samuel Clark, Leo Stine. Standing: Jack Plano, John H. Romani.
Title
Group portrait of the Occupational Therapy Department faculty at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Group photograph of the Occupational Therapy Department faculty from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured from left to right: Rosalia Kiss, Lois Hamlin, Dean Tyndall, Marion Spear, and Alice Lewis.
Title
Group portrait of the Physics Department faculty at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Group photograph of the Physics Department faculty from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured left to right: Karl Miller, George Bradley, Nathan Nichols, Walter Marburger, Stanley Derby, and Haym Kruglak.
Title
Herbert Slusser, faculty, portrait
Date
approximately 1946
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Photograph of Herbert Slusser, associate professor, English Department 1924-1947
Title
Group portrait of the Industrial Arts Department at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Group photograph of the Industrial Arts Department from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Henry Beukema, Donald Nantz, Herbert Ellinger, William Weeks, Dr. Andrew Luff and Dr. Glade Wilcox. Standing: William Schreiber, Donald Black, Robert Hoffman, William Wichers, Clarence Van Deventer, Robert Ring, Elmer Brune and Lindsay Farnan.
Title
Group portrait of the Home Economics Department at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Group photograph of the Home Economics Department from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured: Rachel Acree, Reva Volle, Betty Taylor, Gladys Rowe and Opal Stamm.
Title
Group portrait of the Distributive Education Department at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Group photograph of the Distributive Education Department from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured: Rosalie Reber, Wendell Fidler, Raymond Dannenberg, and Adrian Trimpe.
Title
Buck Read and Mike Gary at fishing campsite
Date
1958-11-01
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Color photograph, taken November 1, 1958, of Herbert "Buck" Read and Mike Gary at fishing campsite in wooded area. Read served as head basketball coach from 1922 to 1949 and taught in the Men's Physical Education Department. Gary served at football coach at WMU from 1922 to 1945, and as athletic director and head of the men’s Physical Education Department from 1949 to 1967.
Title
Library Staff at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Group photograph of Library staff from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Phoebe Lumaree and James Knauss. Standing: Edith Clark, Francis Allen, Katherine Stokes, Hazel Saye, Hazel DeMeyer, Paul Randall, and Gertrude VanZee. James Knauss, History Department, served as the University Archivist at the time this photograph was taken.
Title
Charles S. Nichols, faculty at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Photograph of Charles S. Nichols working machinery. Charles Nichols taught Manual Arts at Western Michigan University from 1921-1957. The photo appears in the WMC News Magazine, Summer 1957 edition.
Title
Hugh Ackley, faculty at Michigan College of Education
Date
1947
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
Photograph of Hugh M. Ackley, faculty in the Mathematics Department at Western Michigan College of Education from 1922 to 1947. The dormatory, Ackley Hall, was built and dedicated to Hugh Ackley in 1963.
Title
English Department Faculty at Western Michigan College of Education
Date
1954
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
English Department Faculty in Spring 1955 at Western Michigan College of Education. Photograph appeared in the 1954 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured, back row: Ralph Miller, Helen Master, Ruth Van Horn, Georgiann Burge, Edith Eicher, M. Dezena Loutzenhiser, Lorene Gary, Lucille Nobbs, Louise Walker, Dorothy Osborn, Thelma Anton Bernadine (Penny) Carlson, Helen Sellers. Second row: Frank Householder, Dale Lancaster, Jean Malmstrom, Joseph Torok, Robert Limpus. Front row: William Brown, Joseph McKee, Frederick Rogers.
Title
English Department Faculty at Western Michigan University, in a classroom
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
English Department Faculty in 1957 at Western Michigan University. The photograph appeared in the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured, back row: Dr. Ralph Miller, Frank Householder, John Woods, Dr. Arnold Nelson, John McNally, Phil Denenfeld, Dr. Frederick Rogers, David Pugh, Robert A. Palmatier, and Dr. David F. Sadler. Middle row: William Rosegrant, John Orr, Dr. Robert Limpus, Dorothy Osborn, Katherine Rogers, Bernadine Carlson, Georgianna Burge, and Helen Sellers. Seated (left to right): Dr. John Freund, Clayton Holladay, Louise Walker, Lucille Nobbs, Thelma Anton, Jean Malmstrom, and Anne Oas.
Title
Faculty Retirement Group at Western State Teachers College
Date
1946
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
Faculty retirement group from Western State Teachers College examining blueprints for development of the new campus. The drawing was prepared by architect Ralph R. Calder. Pictured, standing (left to right): George Sprau, Grover C. Bartoo, Bess Baker Skillman and Harper C. Maybee. Seated: Anna French and Anna Evans. Photo appeared in the Summer 1946 Western Michigan College News Magazine.
Title
Michigan College of Education faculty John C. Hoekje and Leonard Meretta designing marching band formation
Date
1947
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
John C. Hoekje, dean, and Leonard Meretta, faculty, at Michigan College of Education, designing a show formation for the Western Marching Band. Meretta was a professor emeritus of music and the founder of the Western Michigan University bands program at WMU in 1945. John C. Hoekje was a professor of education and psychology. He also served as registrar, dean of admissions and director of extension during his 1916-to-1955 tenure at the University.
Title
W.J.B. Truitt, faculty, portrait
Date
approximately 1948
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
Photograph of W.J.B. Truitt, Ed.D., Professor of Education, 1948-1949.
Title
John Hoekje and Howard Bigelow performing Radio Skit for the re-dedication of the Barracks to Temporary Buildings
Date
1944-07
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
John C. Hoekje and Howard Bigelow acting as Master of Ceremonies at the formal re-naming and rededication of the barracks to temporary buildings during a mock ceremony and skit on July 1944. The Barracks Building was built in 1918 to house the local Student Army Training Corps. Preparing for duty in World War I, the young men trained and marched on the adjacent athletic fields. When the building was no longer needed for the corps, the Normal School reused it for Home Economics and Manual Arts Classes. It remained a "temporary" classroom building until it was razed in 1948. John C. Hoekje was a professor of education and psychology who also served as registrar, dean of admissions and director of extension during his 1916-to-1955 tenure at the University. Dr. Howard F. Bigelow was an economics professor at WMU from 1924 to 1961.
Title
Ellis Walker, health services, undated portrait
Time Period
1930 - 1939
Description
Portrait of Ellis J. Walker, Ph.B., R.N., Director of Health Services, 1927-1946.
Title
Group portrait of the Industrial Technology Department Faculty at Western Michigan University
Date
1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Group photo of the Industrial Technology Department at Western Michigan University, which appeared in the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Henry Beukema, Dr. Donald Nantz, Herbert Ellinger, William Weeks, Dr. Andrew Luff, and Dr. Glade Wilcox. Standing: William Schreiber, Donald Black, Robert Hoffman, William Wichers, Clarence Van Deventer, Robert Ring, Elmer Brune, and Frank Scott.
Title
Walter Marburger with radio Equipment at Western Michigan College of Education
Date
approximately 1945
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
Walter Marburger, physics professor, working with short wave radio equipment. Marburger was a faculty and chemist in the Physics Department at Western Michigan College of Education from 1925. He was first president of the Faculty Senate from 1958-1959 and founded the VHF Conference for amateur radio operators in 1954. He retired from WMU in 1963 after 38 years of teaching physics and electronics classes. After retirement, he was active in local, state and regional amateur radio operations and operating an amateur radio W8CVQ station from his Kalamazoo home.
Title
Ray Pellett with two students at Western Michigan College of Education
Date
approximately 1946
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
Ray Pallett, Dean of Men at Western Michigan College of Education, seated at desk and meeting with two students. A recruiting poster for the Army Air Crews is visible in the background. The male student is holding a booklet about Naval careers. Pellett served as Dean of Men from 1923 to 1953.
Title
Frank Hinds meeting with student at Western Michigan University.
Date
approximately 1960
Time Period
1960 - 1969
Description
Biology professor Frank J. Hinds at his desk, meeting with an unidentified female student. Hinds taught in the Biology Department from 1935 to 1970.
Title
John C. Hoekje and unidentified dignitary from the Netherlands
Date
approximately 1945
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
Photograph of John Hoekje and an unidentified man (left). An unidentified woman and man are standing to Hoekje's right. The woman is wearing pearls and a pin with the coat of arms for the Netherlands (lion holding arrows and a sword). John C. Hoekje was a professor of education and psychology who also served as registrar, dean of admissions and director of extension during his 1916-to-1955 tenure at the University.
Title
Robert Limpus and Fred Rogers, English Faculty at Western Michigan College
Date
1956
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Robert Limpus and Frederick Rogers standing in front of books, possibly the departmental library at Western Michigan College. Limpus became a member of the English faculty in 1947 and was appointed head of Basic Studies in 1956. He became Dean of General Studies in 1965 and retired in 1970. Rogers became a member of the English faculty in 1946 and was chair of the Department in 1956 until his retirement in 1971.
Title
H. Glenn Henderson and Elwyn Carter, faculty at Western Michigan College, with spouses
Date
1956
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
H. Glenn Henderson, faculty in the School of Music from 1913-1956, receives congratulations from Dr. Elwyn Carter at a music banquet. Photo appeared in the Western Michigan Colleges News Magazine, Winter 1956. Mrs. Henderson is on the far left and Mrs. Harper Maybee is on the far right. Carter headed the School of Music from 1945 to 1965 and retired in 1979.
Title
Honor Graduates, June 1965, Western Michigan University
Date
1965-06-12
Time Period
1960 - 1969
Description
Three Summa cum laude and military graduates from Western Michigan University in academic regala at the June 1965 commencement held at Waldo Stadium. Pictured: Wade J. Adams, Michael P. Adas, and Robert S. Rich. The graduation was the last June commencement at Western before transitioning to April.
Title
Dr. James Miller and Dr. Harold Taylor at the 1966 WMU Commencement
Date
1966-04-16
Time Period
1960 - 1969
Description
WMU President James W. Miller, left, reading Dr. Taylor's honorary citation as the Taylor listens at WMU's first April Commencement on April 16, 1966. Dr. Harold Taylor was an internationally renowned philosophical education professor. Taylor is receiving an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree and delivered WMU's first April commencement address. The photo was included in the Western Michigan University Newsletter, May 1966.
Title
Clara Bush, faculty, portrait
Date
1945
Time Period
1940 - 1949
Description
Studio portrait of Clara Bush, 1944 graduate of Western Michigan College of Education. Photograph is from 1945 when she was appointed faculty in the Speech Department at Western Michigan College of Education.
Title
Randal J. Kool, alumni
Date
approximately 1957
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Photograph of Randal Kool, 1957 graduate of Western Michigan University, in military uniform. Kool was in the ROTC. as a student.
Title
William Thomas Ward, faculty
Date
1955
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Photograph of William T. Ward, at the time of his appointment as principal of the Paw Paw Training School. Image appears in the Fall 1955 Western Michigan College News Magazine.
Title
Anna C. Lindblom, faculty
Date
approximately 1950
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Studio portrait of Anna E. Lindblom, faculty member Speech Department, Western Michigan College of Education
Title
Phoebe Walz, faculty
Date
1955
Time Period
1950 - 1959
Description
Photograph of Phoebe Walz from the Western Michigan College Newsletter at the time of her appointment as faculty to Western Michigan College in 1955. Walz was also a 1950 Graduate of Western Michigan College of Education.
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